I've done a great deal of research into writing markets over the course of my Anamnesis obsession. I wrote the novel first, of course, before having the sense to become informed about the crucial business side of things.
So, after coming across the brilliant idea of writing a novella to sell a larger work, did I heed the difficulties I've had in reworking Anamnesis to fit the market and apply the market research step to my deliberately plotted novella?
Of course not. Today, on reaching 16,000 words, I thought I'd look up the article I'd read that put this idea in my head in the first place. Typing "novella markets" into Google yielded a wealth of information that I should have read before now.
It seems that there has never been much of a market for the sort of thing I'm doing, and what little there was has declined in recent years. And of those markets who do publish novellas, few publish anything longer than 15,000 words.
Well, aren't I clever?
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